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“The fog of war. A back room within a back room....You know, it’s at times like these I wish I was Nixon, had every nook and cranny bugged.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 48
Tagged: Richard Nixon, War, Wiretapping
“Claire: I never believed in the tooth fairy.

Elizabeth: Well, you took the money anyway.”
— Claire Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 49
Tagged: tooth fairy, Greed
“Conscience has an unmistakable stink to it, sort of like raw onions and morning breath. But a lie stinks even more when it’s coming from someone who isn’t used to lying. It’s more like rotten eggs and horse shit.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 46
Tagged: Conscience, stink, Onions, Morning Breath, Lies, Rotten Eggs, Horse Shit
“Do you want to live? Tell us what we want. Tell us what we want to hear.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 53
Tagged: Threats, Appeasement
“Claire: You said once you thought he was all surface, Conway.

Yates: Yeah, a narcissist. But give him a pool to reflect in...watch out.”
— Claire Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 51
Tagged: Surface, Narcissus, Narcissist
“There will be pain. There will be suffering. We will be confronted with the most horrific aspects of humanity. We will confront the inhuman. Evil itself. But we will triumph. It is not a war we will lose.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 52
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Triumph, Evil, War
“We need to dial up the terror...”
— Claire Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 53
Tagged: Terror, Dial it Up
“If a man is not smart enough to be able to use whatever is in front of him and still make it work...well, then...that’s just a failure of the imagination.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 54
Tagged: Smart, Imagination, Failure
“You could wake up tomorrow...and...I don’t know, feed the children...start a war...”
— Thomas Yates, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 58
Tagged: Understatement, War
“He’s hiding something...but it doesn’t matter. He’s modern. He makes the presidency accessible. I mean, don’t you want to see the candidate stay up all night?”
— Thomas Yates, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 55
Tagged: Modern, Presidency, Accessible
“The identity of the next President of these United States is once again in the hands of a bunch of self-serving, money-hungry, boot-licking, power-seeking politicians who can be seduced or sucker punched or blackmailed into submission. And all I need is just one more vote than the other guy.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 57
Tagged: Identity, US President, Boot-Licking, Money-Hungry, Power-seeking, Sucker-Punched, Submission
“...you can’t just sit back and admire the view. I’ve learned you’ve got to grab the present by the balls. That’s where the American people live.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 60
Tagged: Americans, Proactive
“History is earned. You win the day, and then you win the day after, and you do the same thing every day until you’re dead. And you’re remembered not for the winning, but because you never lost!”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 60
Tagged: History, Winning
“You made this bed, America. You voted for me. Are you confused? Are you afraid? Because what you thought you wanted is now here. And there you are, staring back, slackjawed, bewildered, wondering if this is what you actually asked for.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 61
Tagged: Slackjawed, Bewildered
“I’m not fucking you because I like you. I’m fucking you because I hate you.”
— Laura Moretti, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 63
Tagged: Hatefuck
“Oh, don’t deny it. You’ve loved it. You don’t actually need me to stand for anything. You just need me to stand. To be the strong man. The man of action.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 64
Tagged: Strongman, Man of Action
“How could you be so stupid...to fall in love?”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 64
Tagged: Stupid, Love
“Now, history judges every leader, every president, by how he or she treats his or her own people.”
— Claire Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 65
Tagged: History, Presidents
“You know, if you ignore all the pomp and circumstance, the most perverse thing is I actually believe in the presidency. Its importance. What it means around the world, even symbolically. But I believe in power even more. For its own sake.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 65
Tagged: Pomp, circumstance
“The real power isn’t here. It’s beyond here. It’s above it, but still working in conjunction with it.”
— Matt Hubbard, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 65
“Where does the real power lie? The power behind the power...”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 65
Tagged: Power, Deep State
“The higher up the mountain the more treacherous the path.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 2: Chapter 16
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“In Gaffney we had our own brand of diplomacy: shake with your right hand and hold a rock in your left.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 2: Chapter 18
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“I will march forward, even if I have to do so alone.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 1: Chapter 10
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“The nature of promises, Linda, is that they remain immune to changing circumstances”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 1: Chapter 1
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“Of all the things I hold in high regard, rules are not one of them.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 1: Chapter 13
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
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